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Elon Musk is without question one of the most visionary, daring and fascinating entrepreneurs, in our lifetime. He is perhaps the apotheosis of visionaries’ of a least the last 100 years. However, Elon Musk is clearly playing a dangerous high –risk game. The overall purpose of this article is to examine some aspects of Elon Musk’s leadership and the nature of organizational “growing pains.” A related purpose is to suggest what Must and Tesla need to do to deal with its “Growing Pains.’”

Management Systems is pleased to provide the 2018 Annual Digital Edition of Management Systems Perspectives ("MSP"). The editorial mission of MSP is to stimulate thought and help promote sound managerial practice globally based to the greatest extent possible upon proven empirical research.

For more than 25 years, the "Balanced Scorecard" has become widely discussed and applied. However, the approach popularized by Kaplan and Norton, is fundamentally flawed and successful applications, like the Unicorn, are rare.

This article is part one of a two-part series on the Balanced Scorecard. Part one is a critique of the Balanced Scorecard, and part two will address how it can be fixed and made more useful.

A new article by Eric Flamholtz, Yvonne Randle, and our Affiliate in China Simon Kuang Yaojun, Tony Wong Xiaohong and Ivy Sun Qian, will be published in American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Business.